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Kerri Arsenault

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I am co-director of of The Environmental Storytelling Studio at Brown University (TESS), contributing editor at Orion magazine, book critic, and author of Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains. I am the Democracy Fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University, a research fellow at the Science History Institute, and a guest lecturer at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich for winter 2022-2023.

Mill Town won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists, the Maine Literary Award for nonfiction. Mill Town was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Leonard Prize for best first book in any genre; the Eric Zencey Prize in Ecolog ...more

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My 86 Jobs

I had a few jobs. Most of them were shit jobs. I wrote about them in the New York Review of books.

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“We broke the rules of our family's way of life, rules they encouraged us to break; we chose different paths.”
― Kerri Arsenault, Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains

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